“Please—”

With the cracking voice, I quickly came to my senses.

“—I beg you.”

When I lowered my head towards the direction of the sound, I saw a beautiful man eagerly holding my ankle. I could feel my ankle hurt a little from being held by him.

How the hell did this happen?

Is this a dream?

The man’s silver hair, which glistened as if made of sugar, was messily scattered under my feet. The man had a very beautiful appearance. I looked at him blankly and forgot to answer him.

His lake-like blue eyes trembled violently.

“Hey–”

“–Please tell me. I’m in a hurry, so I want you to give me the medicine first.”

Medicine? What medicine?

“Please—”

The tone was polite yet urgent.

I was puzzled since I didn’t understand what the man was saying, but he clenched his teeth as if he had misinterpreted my expression.

“—I haven’t been able to take medicine for days already. Please– I beg you.”

The man’s complexion was pale.

He breathed heavily yet quietly as if he was about to die, so I decided to try to save others first.

“Where’s the medicine?”

I asked with the intention of finding it quickly and bringing it, but the man frowned.

But he softened his expression, thinking he might offend me.

“It’ll be in your pocket.”

Why do I have your medicine in my pocket?

I thought it was nonsense, but my hands were already digging into my pocket.

I felt the cold glass against the tip of my finger

Only then did I realize it. I think this is a vivid dream. Although I don’t know why I’m dreaming like this.

“Is this right?”

I shook the small glass bottle filled with achromatic liquid in front of the man’s eyes.

His blue eyes lit up.

“That’s right. Hurry–”

“Rosie! What are you doing!”

The moment I was about to give the man the medicine, a woman dressed like a maid approached me with a surprised expression and shouted at me when she came in.

She was a beautiful woman with fine blonde hair. While I was bewildered, the woman’s green eyes distorted.

“Did you spill it on that monster?”

“—Monster?”

“Yes! Did you forget that you can’t give medicine without the Master’s permission?”

Wait a minute.

Silver-haired, blue-eyed, beautiful man, medicine, monsters, and the Master’s permission—all of these are familiar keywords, aren’t they?

Suddenly, scenes from a novel I had read a while ago began to come to mind.

Which was a BL novel.

But that thought quickly flew away as I felt a force pulling my arm. I was surprised and turned my head.

There stood a woman who nobody knew when she came. Who was it?

“Let’s get out, Rosie. If you stay here, you’ll spill it on that monster.”When a woman in a maid uniform pulled my arm, I followed her unexpectedly.  When I turned around, I saw the man clenching his teeth in humiliation and frustration.

Is it really alright if I don’t give him the medicine?

I was worried about the man, so I dropped the glass bottle on the carpet so that the woman wouldn’t notice.

Then, with a slight kick, I made it roll towards the man.

As if he didn’t know I would do something like that, the man hurriedly picked up the glass bottle that was rolling in front of him, his eyes widened in surprise.

Drink it.

I mouth quietly and softly and left the room.

The man’s half-empty eyes followed me.

It was a very popular BL novel called ‘The Fog Raised.’

Atmosphere as tense as walking a tightrope, intense emotions of protagonists who wanted to kill each other, and incredible writing ability that saved it.

It was a novel that I enjoyed reading.

In the world setting of this novel, there were people called ‘transcendents’.

But they had a singularity.

Transcendents referred to those who were blessed by God and wielded power beyond the realm of human beings. Perhaps it was because they were blessed by God, the blood possessed by the transcendents was magical in itself, and they were completely different from ordinary people.

How did this end?’

It was vague, but it seemed that Richard eventually succeeded in escaping.

However, Richard’s family was that of a dying Count on the outskirts, and Argen, was a Marquis with great power.

When Richard learned of this, he heard that a war had just begun and headed to the battlefield.

After making such a contribution, he returned and destroyed Argen’s family—

Did he imprison Argen so that he would experience the same thing that happened to him?

I think it was that kind of ending

Until the end, the two did not love each other, and there was only hatred.

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“Rosie! What are you thinking about?”

“Huh?”

“Are you really possessed by that monster?”

I shook my head reflexively as the woman in front of me glared at me with her angry eyes.

Why did I suddenly think of that novel?

“You’re a little weird right now, Rosie. You’ve been in a daze since you met the monster.”

It’s because I’m thinking.

“Everyone who came to meet that monster was like that. Everyone was in this strange condition.”

The woman put her hands down my arm as if she was scared.

“—Uhm, what do you mean monster?”

I did think she was talking about the man who begged me for medicine a while ago, but he was a handsome man with a rare appearance, let alone a monster.

“You know, the guy you met earlier.”

“—Ah.”

“Just looking at that guy makes the kids go crazy. They’re possessed by that monster.”

Come to think of it, all the people who saw Richard in ‘The Fog Raised’ couldn’t come to their senses.

Because he was too handsome.

And, perhaps because the Transcendent was blessed by God, to ordinary people, it was a fascinating existence.

“You’d better go and rest, Rosie.”

The woman grabbed my hand, entered a room, and pushed my back toward the bed.

“Get some rest and you’ll get better.”

At the touch of the woman, I laid in bed.

But I was really okay, though.

However, I didn’t mind the touch and closed my eyes.

When I wake up, I’ll wake up from this dream.

Sadly, I didn’t wake up from the dream.

“Wake up, Rosie!”

A rough hand woke me up. The sensation of the hand tapping my shoulder was soft and didn’t hurt me.

It wasn’t a dream.

“It’s time to go to the monster.”

“….”

It can’t be? Really?

“I can’t help it even if you don’t want to go. You’re on duty for this meal.”

“A meal turn?”

“Yeah. You were reluctant to go to that monster, so you took turns taking care of it for 10 days. I can’t help it if you don’t like it. You have to go, Rosie.”

Why is it that the more I listened to it, the more I thought of ‘The Fog Raised’?

“If you are late, the Master will be angry.”

“—The Master?”

“Why have you been like this since a while ago? I’m talking about Marquis Evantes.”

Marquis Evantes—

It’s the same as the main love interest’s family in ‘The Fog Raised’.

No way, it can’t be true right?

Anxiety climbed up my spine like a chill.

When I didn’t say anything, the woman’s expression darkened. I quickly lost track of my expression.

“I’m sorry. I’m a little sick, so I couldn’t remember clearly.”

As I said, it was a very poor excuse.

The woman’s expression became serious as she looked at me cautiously, fearing that I would do something ridiculous.

“—As expected, what did that monster do to you?”

Huh?

“—Rosie.”

“No, this is a cold! I was a little sick because I caught a cold, and I forgot for a while because I just woke up.”

“Really?”

“Yes, so do I have to go and give him a meal?”

The woman still looked worried. Nodding hesitantly, she guided me to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, a rough-looking chef was slicing food fiercely.

The knife was quite sharp.

“I— I’m here to take the meal.”

“It’s over there, so take it.”

The chef pointed to a bowl of rice, clearly annoyed.

“—Do you raise dogs here?”

Was it not to deliver a meal to Richard, but to feed dogs?

“What are you talking about, Rosie? That’s enough for that monster.”

A strange smirk appeared on the woman’s face, Emily.

On the way down to the dining room, I heard the maid calling her Emily.

“Ah, I see.”

I didn’t want to talk for no reason, so I grabbed the dog food bowl on the tray.

What’s the difference if I said what I thought anyway?

“I should get going.”

“Cheer up, Rosie!”

That’s for sure.

This place seemed to be ‘The Fog Raised’.

The detailed settings resembled the novel.

First, all the employees here treated Richard as a monster. It was one of Richard’s humiliations seen in the original work.

It was Argen’s plan for the employees to regard Richard as a monster.

If he didn’t give Richard the magic suppressor, Richard would feel great pain from the magic that seeped inside his body, and if left alone for a long time, he would lose his temper and run wild.

Just like a beast, only instinct would remain and he would wield all his power at will, and Argen took advantage of that.

He scared Richard by deliberately showing his terrifying appearance in front of the servants.

It is said that the sight of Richard losing reason and trying to break the restraint ball by running out of magic was the embodiment of fear itself.

Magic was rare, so the servants thought Richard was just a monster and hated him.

Argen declared in front of the servants, suppressing Richard with restraints through the knights.

That was how he isolated Richard.

‘Is this really The Fog Raised?’

I couldn’t believe it.

The novel kept coming to mind from the moment I saw Richard.

Perhaps it felt strange because it was like everything was hinting at the fact that this place was in the novel.

As I accepted the reality little by little, I felt chills.

What happened to those who served Richard’s meal?

Seeing that Richard did not have an exclusive maid yet, it was clear that the original work had just begun.

According to my memory, in the original work, Argen watched the maids take turns bringing Richard’s meal for 10 days and searched for who would be suitable as an exclusive maid.

What was the standard—?

Since it had been too long ago, I couldn’t think of the details.

‘Let’s be careful to not become his exclusive maid.’

This was because Richard’s exclusive maids were later cut off for failing to stop Richard whenever he tried to escape.

While lost in thought, I eventually arrived in front of Richard’s room. The room in the basement reminded me of a prison.

Standing in front of the door, the gatekeeper looked at me with a cold gaze.

I took a deep breath.

Good, let’s go in!

Sparkling silver hair that seemed like it was sprinkled with starlight powder, and thick eyelashes that curled up.

A handsome face that looked a little tired.

It was this sight that reminded me of a keyword, the beauty of the male lead.

I even had the illusion of seeing a strange evening sunset behind the man in a basement without a single ray of light.

In addition, the image of him wearing shackles on his ankles only made the decadent atmosphere around him stand out more.

“Ah.”

Richard, who saw me, smiled softly.

At the moment, I was shocked. It felt as if someone hit my head with a baseball bat from behind.

How could a person be so handsome?

“You’re the maid who helped me a while ago.”

Unlike when I had seen him a few hours ago, his face, which had been pale from taking the medicine, was full of life.

However, Richard looked a little tired as he couldn’t suppress all the pain with a small amount of medicine.

“How should I repay this favor—”

Surely you didn’t grind your teeth a little while ago, did you?

His tone was so serious that I even doubted if there was something wrong with my memory.

“You don’t have to repay me, but I brought you your meal, so please eat it.”

I cut the conversation and placed the dog bowl in front of him.

Richard was not kind by nature, and he harbored hatred for everyone in this mansion.

Such Richard couldn’t have been grateful for the little help I gave a while ago.

Richard was slyly trying to escape now.

He’s probably trying to use me to run away, before leaving my soul.

‘That’s why Emily asked if I was possessed by the monster.’

In the original work, all of the servants who helped Richard were possessed by him and had their neck blown away.

And Richard didn’t feel a single shred of guilt.

“Thank you for bringing my meal, Maid.”

He must have been feeling humiliated seeing the dog bowl, but he calmly said thanks.

He was polite when we met a while ago, but at that time, he expressed his feelings of hatred because he was losing his composure.

‘No way. Are you trying to get another dose of medicine from me?’

It made sense.

Argen delivered the medicine to the maids serving Richard.

When Richard had seizures for the first time, Argen liked that he could instill fear in him.

However, he also felt frustrated by the power of Richard, who was stronger than he had expected

After that, he instructed the maids who served him to feed Richard the medicine only when he was on the verge of a seizure.

Of course, it was a very small amount, so it only prevented seizures and had no significant effect on reducing his pain.

“Maid.”

While I was lost in thought, Richard seemed to have finished his meal.

“I’m done eating, so please leave. The maid also needs to eat, so you can’t stay here all the time, can you?”

“Okay.”

Nothing happened considering that I had a firm heart before entering the room.

She said that they took turns serving Richard, so it seems like I only need to hold on for about 10 days?

I only have to keep an eye on him until then.

Thinking that way, I cleaned up the bowl of rice in front of Richard and something unexpected caught my eye.

At that moment, goosebumps appeared on the back of my neck.

The chain was broken.

It seemed to have been disconnected slightly and reconnected so that it would not be noticed.

“Maid?”

There was no way that the high-level magical restraints were bad— there was a high probability that Richard had cut them off.

What would have happened to me if I hadn’t found this?

“Maid, are you okay?”

“Ah, I have anemia—”

“Anemia?”

I deliberately staggered with all my might, thinking that Richard could definitely not find out I knew about the broken chain.

“—Maid!”

Richard held on tightly to my waist, which was about to fold over. But

Clank!

I couldn’t help but drop the bowl because my body was shaking a lot.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the dog bowl was strong and didn’t break.

“—Are you okay?”

A look of confusion appeared on Richard’s face.

The thought of deceiving Richard in a hurry made me exaggerate a little, no, a lot.

It suddenly became awkward.

“I have anemia, so I have to take medicine, but I forgot to take it—”

I don’t know, but I don’t think I’m very good at lying.

Richard definitely noticed something strange, right? But, unexpectedly, a sad light flashed across his face.

“You didn’t take medicine?”

—It can’t be.

“I’ve lived with anemia since I was young, so I take anemia medicine, but I often forget when I started working as a maid.”

“That—”

He seemed to think I had something in common with him, who took magic suppressants.

There was a moment of sympathy on Richard’s face, then it subsided.

All right, I think I fooled him safely.

“Anyway, thank you for holding me back.”

I pushed Richard’s shoulder and pulled myself out of his arms.

I hurriedly picked up the dog food bowl that had been thrown away and quickly approached the door.

I was half aware that I might be possessed by Richard if I stayed here any longer.

“Then I’ll get going now.”

“Excuse me, Maid.”

But Richard caught me.

“—May I ask what perfume you use?”

Perfume?

It wasn’t like I could answer, ‘I’ve only been in this body for a day, so I don’t know what perfume I’m using.’

“I’ll tell you next time.”

So don’t run away. Ever.

I ignored Richard’s gaze and came out of the room.

“Rosie! Are you okay?”

Emily was standing outside the room, perhaps waiting for me.

I smiled and handed over the dog bowl to Emily’s hand.

She looked at me with a look like she didn’t understand.

“Rosie? Why did you give this to me—”

“Emily.”

“U-ugh?”

“If I find something dangerous, where should I report it?”

I had to hurry before Richard ran away.

“Uhm, I usually tell the butler. Did something happen there?”

“Where’s the butler?”

“I saw the butler on the first floor.”

“Thank you!”

I ran right past her.

From behind, Emily shouted, ‘What’s going on!’, but I didn’t stop to listen to her words because I had to tell the butler quickly.

I had to report it quickly before Richard ran away.

As I stepped out of the dark basement, a man dressed in a simple white shirt stood alone on the first floor, as Emily said.

“Butler, I’m in trouble!”

A loud voice burst out.

I ran to the man.

“Butler?”

“….”

At my call, the man looked back at me with a strange face.

Something felt odd.

Don’t butlers usually wear butlers’ clothes?

“—That’s, Richa— No, I was the monster’s servant and found the chain broken.”

I closed my mouth and paused. I had blurted out Richard’s name without thinking.

The servants of this mansion called Richard a monster.

Because Argen wanted it, he was called a monster.

No one knew Richard’s name.

“Did the chain break?”

“It seems to be cut off. Anyway, to make sure—”

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Hold on. Something’s weird.

Soft blonde hair as if pure gold melted, green eyes reminiscent of a forest, and beautiful features.

Everything was so hectic that I couldn’t check it out properly, but it was similar to the description of the main love interest’s appearance—

No way, is it Argen—?

Seeing me, he smiled brightly.

I got goosebumps all over my body.